The evening world., 1887-11-02
Interesting Facts About
Court Of Common Pleas CT
A Big Salary and Bigger Patrona|
Twenty-Five Years.

TO Investigate Charges Against M
Months Ago, and Another Appoint|
terday-wM Anything DO Done Nd
A striking illustration of how long
will be permitted to remain in|
ever when charges against him
grant misconduct have been repeat
iterated in the press, is the case Of M
Jarvis, IT,, Chief Clerk of the Court d
mon Pleas. Proven accusations ID
affecting his integrity and fidelity ha1
been spread on the public records.
Ten months ago the Judges of the 4
Common Pleas appointed . commit
their number to investigate very
charges against Jarvis, but up TO date
had been done. Yesterday they an
another Judge To investigate newer|
affecting the honest management of
Office. The question now is whet|
thing will be done in the coming ten
Jarvis has held his Office for twd
years, drawing q salary of $4,000, AMI
ing the patronage coming from \
power Of appointment Of thirty-iv}
and attendants. The word Junior
to his name is misleading, for Jarvis
Of nearly sixty years, with q md
mustache and iron-gray hair. /
brother-in-law Of Judges Brady ar|
and was q saohem of Tammany Hall l
years ago.
As far back as 1886 complaints WI
by members of the Bar and other
loose manner In which the business o.
office was conducted, and an inve|
was SGT on foot by Mayor Gunther|
found that the books Of the Office VI
lessly and inaocurately kept, and thu
number Of useless officials with lib
ries were kept in the office at the ind
Jarvis's political friends. A strong
ton of these facts was made to th|
but Jarvis brought the influence of
and strong political friends to bea|
veil of oblivion was cast ove hi
comings,
DISCLOSURES m THE coLAH CA
Next came the startling DISCLOSURE
case of Bomanjee Byramjee Colah.
estate Of $105, 900 Jarvis influence
him the trusteeship. After Jarvis
the money for twelve years Colah d
representatives Of the dead merchd
lily demanded an accounting, BIZ
fought of this demand for many
and then said the estate was exhad
only assets remaining in his hands \
worthless mortgages for $4,000.
II was proved in the Supreme d
jarvis spent the funds Of the estate
invested them in an illegal manner
receipts, and in other ways shame|
trayed the sacred trust conided q
the Court Of which he is O sworn OH
JUDGMENT GIVEN FOE $76,07
For this wilful neglect the Equity
the Supreme Court, on Dec. ID, 1885
Jarvis in compound interest on q
which he had used for twelve years.
Judgment against him for $76, 075. 81
HIS PROPERTY TURNED OVER TO M
An attempt was made to collect 1
ment by levying upon the house No
Fifty-ffth street, six lots OF wharf
ON the North River and other n
which Jarvis had accumulated viii
service Of the City, but he had takeI
caution to transfer the property TO
and so defed the Sheriff.
Before further steps could be takd
pei him to disgorge he secured
execution and appealed to the Gene
on the fimsy pretext that the Suprd
has no jurisdiction. over an ofdcd
Court of Common Pleas.
As a result of the crushing decisi|
Equity Term II was confidently expI
Jarvis would resign or that the
Pleas judges would summarily dis
from office.
} NO ACTION By THE COMMON PLEAS
Nothing of the kind, happened
He was not even suspended to avail
investigation. The strong epolitI
which formerly stood him in good
. still available, and no official. nj
taken OF his misdeeds. He contind
I the holder Of q fat sinecure and oil
dispenser of patronage.
Instead of taking warning by TN
! escape, Jarvis grew more and more
= performance OF his duties and alloj
abuses to spring up and flourish,
THE PUBLIC COMPLAINS.
Z A few months ago Mayor Hew|
D upon representations made to hin
yers and private citizens, called
7 Commissioners of Accounts to n
the Jarvis bureau.
p; Clerk Duggett, who was appointed
work, met with innumerable obstac|
conduct of the investigation. Just
5 Il was found that no regular bo|
; kept, everything being so arrang
8 aiford the utmost facility for peculd
9 the least opportunity for the
0 thereof.
MI. Duggett, on the meagre YOU'D
duced, covering but q few short
found a defalcation of $500, and
his deliberate conviction that mu|
= theta of city money remained bel
found the work of the Office In
state and several unauthorized persI
= there at the city's expense, ono of
o oeiying $1,000 q year for nominal 81
To these charges Jarvis made Q h1
8 evasive reply. The Commiesione|
= counts, in q further report TO the M
23, exposed the falsity OF Jaryis's 4
and reiterated their charges against
Mayor Hewitt has sent these two
the Commissioner of Accounts to 4